{"id":4500,"date":"2015-12-07T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2015-12-07T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:34:47","slug":"obama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4500","title":{"rendered":"WHAT OBAMA WAS REALLY SAYING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norman Solomon at commondreams translates for the President.<\/p>\n

Had he been leveling with the public, Obama would have admitted that:<\/p>\n

“In the name of defeating terrorist forces, our air war has the effect of\u00a0recruiting<\/a>\u00a0for them. Meanwhile, in Syria, our obsession with regime change has propelled us into closely aligning with extremist jihadi fighters. They sure appreciate the large quantities of our weapons that end up in their arsenals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norman Solomon at commondreams translates for the President. Had he been leveling with the public, Obama would have admitted that: “In the name of defeating terrorist forces, our air war has the effect of\u00a0recruiting\u00a0for them. Meanwhile, in Syria, our obsession … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}